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Stress seekers must learn to slow down and calm down, to put things into perspective. Here are some guidelines:

1. Slow down the pace of your life; even a little bit will help. Learn to walk more leisurely, talk a bit slower, chew your food longer, and drive in the slow lane.

2. Set aside time every day for relaxation, meditation and exercise. The little time you invest in this way will pay you handsome dividends in years to come.

3. Don’t try to do more than one thing at a time. Nothing is that important.

4. Don’t plan to do more in a day than you can comfortably accomplish. If you finish early, go home and relax. Don’t take on new responsibilities that will overload your schedule.

5. On your way to work, to the market, or anywhere, take some time to appreciate the beauty of the scenery: the sky, the people, the architecture.

6. Spend time with your loved ones and friends. Holidays, birthdays, anniversaries and graduations are great opportunities for fun.

7. Leave ten minutes early, no matter where you’re going. Now you won’t have to drive with an eye on the clock, fretting about being late.

8. If you find yourself too busy to do something, you’re trying to do too much. Get someone else to do it or leave it undone until tomorrow, or the next day.

9. Don’t always volunteer to take on more work, go to more classes or supervise more people. If you have the time and energy, fine. If not, skip it.

10. If your work environment is constantly pressuring you, it may be time for you to look for a new job.

11. If you can’t seem to finish everything you want to, learn to live with it. Remember, the only thing that is completely finished is a corpse.

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With continued exercise, the tiny blood vessels that carry fresh blood throughout your body begin to relax: resistance to the blood flow decreases, and blood pressure is lowered. This effect can last for many hours, during and after exercise. That’s why it’s especially important for the person with high blood pressure to exercise.

NOTE: If you have high blood pressure or any other medical problems, see your doctor before beginning an exercise program.

Exercise For Air

During exercise, your lungs work harder to make sure that enough oxygen gets into the blood. But it’s the muscles between the ribs (intercostal muscles) and the diaphragm that actually tighten, then relax, to expand and contract your lungs. Like any other muscles, the intercostals and the diaphragm get stronger with use. In the long run, sustained exercise increases your ability to take oxygen into your lungs. I’ve found that pulmonary (lung) functions improve in almost all patients after just four to six weeks of regular exercise.

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Nuts:

Almonds
Hazelnuts
Pecans
Cashews
Lychees
Peanuts
Chestnuts
Macadamias
Walnuts
Filberts

Seeds:

Anise
Dill
Sesame
Caraway
Flax
Sunflower
Chia
Poppy
Pumpkin
Celery

• Nuts and seeds are high in fat, deriving about 70 percent to 87 percent of their calories from fat (depending on the nut). Use them sparingly. Macadamias contain the highest percentage of calories from fat. Chestnuts, which are very low in fat, are an exception, and roasted chestnuts taste great.

• If you use nuts and seeds, use them sparingly as a condiment, to give your food extra taste and crunch.

Anise Basil

Bay Leaves Cardomom Cayenne Pepper Celery Seeds Cinnamon Cloves Coriander Cumin (ground) Curry Powder

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There’s more to stress than being yelled at by your boss or being stuck in traffic. Stress results any time your body is called upon to adapt to different circumstances, and there are “good” and “bad” stresses. Anger, negative thoughts and depression are stressors that harm your “doctor within.” I’ll talk more about stress later, but for now let me say that stress is a major health problem.

Stress contributes to disease. And disease, in turn, is a very stressful event. You must protect your “doctor within” by learning how to avoid the dangerous stress-disease, more-stress-more disease cycle.

Mr. Grossbaum was an angry 60-year-old man. “That lousy partner of mine!” he used to say, shaking his fist. Mr. Grossbaum and his partner had founded a successful chain of dry cleaning stores on the West Coast. Two excitable men, they never got along well. Every time they fought, which was often, Mr. Grossbaum wound up with headaches and stomach pain. Finally, after 25 years of stress, he sold his share of the business to his partner.

He came to see me soon after, complaining of abdominal pain, headaches, high blood pressure, insomnia, nightmares and irritability. “My wife insisted I come,” he said. “There’s nothing wrong with me that going back and telling off that lousy ex-partner of mine won’t cure.”

Instead of learning to avoid stress, as I suggested, he called up his old partner to tell him exactly what he thought of him. They yelled at each other on the phone for ten minutes before Mr. Grossbaum ended the conversation by ripping the cord out of the wall and hurling the phone across the room. With his blood pressure sky high, his heart pounding and his hands shaking, he sat down to rest. Five minutes later he had a massive heart attack and died.

Mr. Grossbaum didn’t know it, but fighting with his partner— or even thinking about fighting—caused his sympathetic nervous system to spew out high-voltage chemicals that eventually triggered the heart attack.

So there’s no way to get around it: we’ve been wired in such a way that our thoughts are felt throughout our bodies. Good thoughts improve our health. Bad, distressful thoughts induce poor health.

We tend to think of our body and mind as distinct entities. That isn’t true. Our mind and body are actually one and the same. It’s convenient to separate them for discussion’s sake, but they are really both aspects of a singular entity: you. What happens in your mind is reflected throughout your body; changing the chemical composition of your cells and body fluids, even affecting your ability to fight off disease. I’ll talk more about this in Chapter Five, and show you how to keep your mind filled with the happy, positive thoughts that encourage good health.

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In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, doctors tried to explain why they saw certain patterns of diseases. Epidemics broke out in the crowded urban slums created by the Industrial Revolution, due to a lack of sanitation and clean water supplies. Knowing nothing of bacteria and viruses, doctors constructed the theory of ‘miasmas’ to explain them.

Miasmas were elusive, unidentified atmospheric conditions that could somehow cause disease. To explain the great variety of diseases that appeared in the same crowded areas, the miasmas were assumed to be non-specific -they might cause cholera in some people, yellow fever in others, and so on. As an extension of this idea, other factors in the environment were assumed to cause disease. Cold was an obvious one, and it too was seen as being nonspecific – different people suffered different symptoms when they lived in cold houses or breathed cold air.

In the 1860s and 1870s, a revolution occurred in medical thinking. Dr Robert Koch in Germany and Louis Pasteur in France discovered that microorganisms caused a great many diseases. More importantly, they found that specific bacteria caused specific illnesses. This is a fact that we now take for granted, but in its time it was a remarkable and novel idea. The germ theory, as it was known, quickly replaced the old way of thinking, where a miasma or other environmental factor could cause a great variety of different ills.

The change in medical thinking brought about by the germ theory was a radical one. In a reaction to the vagueness of the old ways of thought, a dogmatic insistence on cause-and-effect thinking took over. From then on, each disease had to have a specific set of symptoms and a specific cause. This way of thinking, with its obvious scientific merits, has dominated medical education for the past century.

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